He stared at the book, his book, now bearing another name. "The Art of War" was now credited to "J. Montgomery". He felt a sudden, almost uncontrollable urge to hurl the book across the room. He resisted, but the urge lingered, a dark and unwelcome guest.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture almost violent. He felt a cold rage building in his chest. His work, his dedication, his years of study—all erased. All gone. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, trying to regain control.

He felt the frustration boiling over. He needed to be alone. He walked to the window and stared out at the street below, seeing nothing but the injustice that had been done. He needed to make a call. Right now.

Emotion: annoyed

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -0.59 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.27

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion annoyed. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 annoyed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the annoyed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the annoyed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
l0.376
😠0.251
0.249
🤬0.245
fucking0.239
Suppressed:
own-0.352
渗透-0.251
gradually-0.234
unfolding-0.226
超越-0.224